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Technically (RAW), I would say yes to all of them except for the magic item ones. That's why the spell got so much heat when it first came out - it's terribly broken and essentially forces the DM to be a no-sayer. The biggest problem is really the permanency. Doing all those things is flavorful...

Most methods of exchanging AC for DR just don’t really work. They essentially make the D20 roll irrelevant, since hits will happen most of the time. The only thing that matters then is the damage roll. The way I would do it is this: get rid of AC altogether and create a new stat. Let’s call it...

I'd say it really depends on what you want. FR is the very definition of a kitchen sink setting - no matter what kind of campaign you want to run, there's probably somewhere in the realms it fits. The Sword Coast and the North have been the most commonly used, because they're the closest match...

I can't see that happening for a long time, if ever. Absolutely, if I had my druthers, I'd love to see Paizo publishing adventures or conversions for its adventures -- but why on earth would it do so? It has a very successful product line, the market leader (even with 5E out), and a history in...

I don't believe that WoTC blew up the realms to "separate the novels and the RPG" at all. The novels and RPG are still set in the same timeline. The new novels are set in the 4E timeline, just like the RPG products. The realms were nuked because the powers that be at WoTC at the time thought it...

I've found it's easy enough to ignore canon - you just have to establish early on that that's the way you're going. One of the conceits of much of the published Realms (particularly Ed Greenwood's work) is that it comes from an unreliable narrator. The Realms that we know is the the Realms as...

Confirmed. Details are sketchy - and there's no indication about what version of D&D it'll be using (or if it uses D&D at all) - but Beamdog has said it's developing a new entry in the Baldur's Gate series. Edit: and from the source. Looks like it won't be 5E.

That kind of brings up one of the reasons I've been so frustrated with WoTC since 4E launched. It seemed (to me, at least) in 4E that the accountants took over the product decisions. They clearly said "campaign settings and adventures don't make us money, so lets cut those from the product line...

Back in November (October?) Mike Mearls at WoTC specifically said they weren't, at the time, working on an FR campaign setting for 5E, and that they intended to figure out how they're going to approach the setting in the new year. As it stands, there is no announcement of a 5E FR campaign...

I'm a liker. For me, it's the depth of the world - an incredibly rich history that gives adventures in the realms a context that most other settings can't really match (reading the Grand History of the Realms can give you an idea about just how complex the setting is). The Star Wars and...

Yep, apart from little bits here and there (Mystra and Lathander are back and kinda-sorta Mask too, the Sea of Fallen Stars has been re-embiggened, the weave is restored, the Shades are mostly dead and so on) we don't yet have much official confirmation of what exactly the Sundering entailed...

Technically, it's a little broken as well, since an Elf caster (who only needs 4 hours for a long rest) could cast it, rest to get their 9th level slot back, and still have four hours of free awesomeness :)

It's not just advantage on hits, it's advantage on saving throws and skill checks -- basically any time you roll a D20, you get to roll two of them. What's more, anything that tries to hit you has disadvantage. A fighter with this active would be a monster, hitting close to 100% of the time...

The number one most abusable spell seems to me to be True Polymorph, although many campaigns will never reach a position to use it (that said, I don't think this is a reason to dismiss broken high level spells. 3E and Pathfinder have conditioned us to the notion that high-level play is horribly...

My first thought when reading the True Polymorph description was that it's essentially a gateway to infinite money. If you can turn anything and anyone into any other thing permanently, then I'm going around turning everything I see into blocks of gold 20' high and diamonds as large as your...